Vancouver's quirky history emerges in old manhole cover
Credit to Author: John Mackie| Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:23:32 +0000
Manhole cover design may date to 1892, when Vancouver was only six years old.
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Empty five-acre land parcel available on Vancouver's prestigious Belmont Avenue
Credit to Author: David Carrigg| Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 03:41:31 +0000
Three-lot parcel for sale at $81 million, with yearly property taxes of $280,000, but cannot be stratified
Read moreCentury old-plus bottles bring Metro Vancouver Chinese workers’ history to light
Credit to Author: Joanne Lee-Young| Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022 16:00:44 +0000
Port Coquitlam heritage museum staff and volunteers uncover artifacts from late 19th and early 20th centuries
Read moreBlowing up B.C.'s Ripple Rock with Mary McAlpine
Credit to Author: John Mackie| Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:09:19 +0000
Vancouver Sun reporter Mary McAlpine was a Vancouver blueblood and the paper was always running photos of her, such as the time she interviewed a circus acrobat and was talked into posing dangling upside down on a trapeze in mid-air.
Read moreBook review: Exploring Vancouver’s split personality of ‘world class’ vs. livability champion
Credit to Author: Lionel Wild| Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:00:59 +0000
Popular historian Daniel Francis brings this vibrant, contentious urban history to life, dating back to early white settlement
Read moreB.C. composer's work the latest to be celebrated by Canadian Music Centre
Credit to Author: Aleesha Harris| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 19:28:39 +0000
The B.C. branch is honouring Ross Alden, who was also an educator, critic and scholar under the name Murray Carmack.
Read moreMedals belonging to Vancouver-born naval hero back in family hands
Credit to Author: David Carrigg| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 01:23:01 +0000
Lieut. David Allison Killam survived the explosion, and was heard shouting to rescuers in the misty conditions, “carry on, don’t worry about me.”
Read moreMedals belonging to Vancouver-born naval hero appear on eBay
Credit to Author: David Carrigg| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 02:59:46 +0000
Lieut. David Allison Killam survived the explosion, and was heard shouting to rescuers in the misty conditions, “carry on, don’t worry about me.”
Read moreDan Fumano: '2020 is the time' for Japanese Canadians to 'grab' redress
Credit to Author: Dan Fumano| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 21:17:36 +0000
OPINION: Redress efforts seek not only recognition of historic injustices against Japanese Canadians, but also future actions to benefit B.C. society as a whole
Read moreAsa Johal, from poor immigrant to B.C. independent lumber baron
Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:31:04 +0000
Asa Johal retired in 2016 at age 94 as a titan in British Columbia’s coastal forest industry. His amazing life and business achievements have been chronicled in a new book
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